SACRAMENTO — In the final hours of this year’s legislative session, which ended after 2 a.m. Saturday, key immigration and affordable-housing bills passed out of the Legislature, as did a $4 billion parks and water bond, which the governor has said he will sign. It will appear on a June 2018 ballot.

A clean energy bill did not get a vote in the Assembly, however, and an Internet privacy bill also remained stuck in committee.

The Senate approved SB5, a bond allocating $3 million to parks and water systems, subject to a vote by Californians next year. The funding is “the single largest investment in the history of the United States to park-starved communities,” said Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León. Opponents argued the bill, which passed on a 27-9 vote, wasn’t worth the impact to the state’s general fund.

1:45 a.m. — Senate passes ‘sanctuary state’ bill, sends to governor

After extended procedural debates pushed the session past 1 a.m., the State Senate passed the “sanctuary state” bill, SB54, which would limit local law enforcement’s ability to coordinate with federal immigration officials. It passed 27-11.

The bill’s sponsor, Kevin de León, said referring to the bill as sanctuary was “a misnomer”—”there’s no invisible forcefield that gives you a sense of security,” he said. But he argued the bill would be critical for “immigrants living in fear” of the Trump administration.

1:37 a.m. — No vote for internet privacy bill

A bill that supporters say would help protect internet users’ privacy has not received a vote in either legislative house on the last day of the session.

The bill, AB375 would have placed limits on how internet service providers could sell data on their customers — essentially replacing Obama administration regulations that were undone earlier this year by the Trump administration.

But despite the appeal of resisting Trump — a favorite topic for lawmakers — the bill never saw action. Supporters said that was because of the influence of the powerful telecommunications industry.

“Californians will continue to be denied the legal right to say no to their cable or telephone company using their personal data for enhancing already high profits,” said Ernesto Falcon, an analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for internet transparency.

FRIDAY

11:30 p.m. — Parks and water bond passes, after long delay

The Assembly finally passed Senate Bill 5, the California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018. The $4 billion bond, which received some bipartisan support, will appear on the June 2018.

9:30 p.m. — Assembly debates $4 billion parks and water bond

Senate Bill 5 would place a parks and water bond the ballot in 2018. Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, said much of the money would go to city and state parks. “We need to invest in California state parks,” he said. “It’s about public safety, it’s about public health, it’s about the environment.”

Assemblyman Brian Dahle, R-Bieber, argued against the bond, saying the state has already racked up far too much debt. “I’m all for clean water, fresh water, parks,” he said, “but at some point we have to look at the face of our children … we’re putting this debt on the backs of our children.”

The bill needs a two-thirds vote to pass, but was 10 votes shy. Now, it’s on hold in the hope that more lawmakers will sign on.

6:50 p.m. — Assembly passes bill to move up presidential primary

The state Assembly approved a bill that would move California’s presidential primary to March, in an attempt to boost turnout and give the state more influence in the 2020 campaign. With 47 votes in favor, the bill will now go back to the Senate, where it’s already passed. It’s likely to go to Gov. Brown.

“Californians’ voices have all but been silenced when it comes to choosing presidential nominees,” said Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-San Mateo.

But opponents said the bill would also impact state elections. A shortened filing deadline means fewer candidates challenge state incumbents, argued Assemblyman Matthew Harper. “Some of you might love that,” he told the Assembly floor.

4:04 p.m. — More housing bills pass Senate

Several other major housing bills passed the Senate Friday afternoon, including SB3, which would create a $4 billion bond to build housing, including housing for veterans. If signed by Gov. Brown, the bond will go before voters in November 2018.

“This will allow veterans to go home from the war… and have a place to live in peace,” said Sen. Jim Beall, D-Campbell, the bill’s author. It passed 30-8.

A series of other bills streamlining housing development in California cities also passed the Senate.

3:51 p.m. — Senate passes SB2 housing bill, sending it to governor

After dramatic late-night votes in the Assembly on Thursday, the State Senate passed a closely-watched affordable housing bill with relatively little trouble Friday afternoon.

Senate Bill 2, which would charge a $75 fee on some real estate transactions to raise $200 to $300 million per year to build low-income housing, passed 27-11. Supporters said it was a critical tool to addressing California’s housing crisis.

“In our downtowns, you see cranes in the air, building luxury housing,” said Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, the bill’s sponsor. “You have to have subsidies to provide low-income, affordable housing.” The legislation, she said, was “seven years in the making.”

Republicans argued that the fees from SB2 were too much for Californians. “We’re extinguishing the California dream of homeownership by further putting burdens on homeowners,” said Sen. Jeff Stone, R-Murrieta.

The California Assembly passed a bill from a Bay Area lawmaker that supporters, including the League of Women Voters, say will shine a light on “dark money” in politics, requiring that top donors be listed on campaign ads.

“Assembly Bill 249 will result in the strongest campaign transparency and disclosure law in America,” said its main author, Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-San Mateo.

The bill governs mass mailings, TV and radio ads and other campaign materials. Mullin argued it was long overdue and challenged colleagues to defy naysayers who assumed a group of politicians would never pass such a law. It passed with bipartisan support, though some Republicans said they felt it created a loophole for union contributions, and now heads to the governor.

11:00 a.m. — The State Senate is back in session.

It passed a plan for spending $1.5 billion in cap-and-trade revenue, much of it on clean-vehicle incentive programs, despite Republican concerns over a labor-friendly provision that appeared to be directed at Tesla’s Fremont plant. It went to the Assembly.

THURSDAY

5:11 p.m. — Assembly stalls over bill that would let California students sleep in

A bill that would let California students hit the snooze button before classes stalled in the state Assembly Thursday.

Senate Bill 328, which would prohibit California’s public middle and high schools from starting classes earlier than 8:30 a.m., stalled with 24 votes in favor and 25 votes opposed on Thursday evening. The vote will stay open.

Supporters say considerable research has shown that students have better attendance rates, GPA’s, test results when they start later.

“This is a pretty momentous change to the schedules of millions of Californians in high school and middle school,” said Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia. “When the data is this convincing, we are compelled to act.”

An extended debate on the Assembly floor delved into the specificities of members’ kids’ schedules. Obernolte said his children start classes at 7 a.m., and “even with their minimalist approach to personal hygiene, that means they have to get up at 6am to get to school.”

Opponents to the bill urged legislators to respect school boards and said later start times would push back sports and after-school activities even later into the night. “We have 4,000 schools in this state and 3 million kids we educate,” said Asm. Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis Obispo. “We have to have some trust for the local decision makers to make decisions of how they use their resources.”

In a jab at President Donald Trump, the Assembly on Thursday passed a bill requiring presidential candidates to publicly release their tax returns in order to get on California’s ballot.

Trump was the first presidential candidate in about 40 years who did not release his tax returns during his campaign. Under the bill, candidates who don’t file copies of their tax returns with the Secretary of State’s Office would be banned from appearing on the state’s ballot.

“The recent election exposed a flaw in our system and we have an opportunity to fix it,” said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland.

Several Republicans argued that the bill was unconstitutional. Matthew Harper, R-Huntington Beach, said the authors of the bill should release their own tax returns. “The hypocrisy at this level is absolutely amazing and incredible,” he said. “This is shameful, hypocritical and completely out of order.”

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, elicited jeers and objections from Republicans when he referred to Trump as a “Russian crony” during the debate.

The bill passed 42-18, and now goes back to the Senate.

3:30 p.m. — “Equal pay” bill goes to governor

Assembly Bill 168, carried by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, would prevent employers from asking job applicants for their salary history, a practice known to perpetuate the pay gap between men and women. The proposal now heads to the governor.

“The practice of seeking or requiring the salary history of job applicants helps perpetuate wage inequality that has spanned generations of women in the workforce,” Eggman said in a statement. “AB 168 empowers women to determine for themselves where they start negotiating.”

Bay Area residents would vote on a $3 bridge toll hike to raise funding to address traffic congestion under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Thursday afternoon.

The State Senate voted 26-11 Thursday to authorize a ballot initiative on the toll hike, which would raise bridge tolls around the Bay Area by up to $3. The measure is expected to raise up to $4.2 billion over a 25-year period, depending on how much the tolls are raised — funding that would be used to lengthen BART trains, more ferries, rapid buses, and about 30 other transportation projects.

Voters in the nine Bay Area counties would vote on the toll hike next year.

“Traffic congestion in our freeways in the Bay Area and overcrowding on our transit systems…is eroding the Bay Area’s quality of life and undermining our job creation and retention,” said Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, who wrote the bill.

The measure would also institute a new inspector general position to oversee BART, which Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Contra Costa, said would help address the transit agency’s “chronically late trains, unsafe conditions, and filthy stations.”

The bill was previously passed by the Assembly, and will now to Gov. Jerry Brown. After Beall’s bill passed, he walked out of the Senate chambers to meet with State Transportation Secretary Brian Kelly, who congratulated him — but declined to comment.

“This is a vision for the future of the Bay Area,” Beall said in an interview.

San Jose Vice Mayor Magdalena Carrasco, who was visiting Sacramento, said the funding would be “such a win for our community.”

It will be illegal for an employer to fire or discipline a woman for being pregnant, taking birth control medication, or making other decisions about her reproductive health if the governor signs Assembly Bill 569, from Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego. The bill, which prevents employers from requiring employees to sign codes of conduct about their sexuality and reproductive health — like the “morality clause” the Archbishop of San Francisco attempted to implement for Catholic school teachers — won final approval from the Assembly this morning.

“Women in this country have been fired for getting pregnant while unmarried, for using in-vitro fertilization and for other personal reasons related to their own reproductive health,” Gonzalez Fletcher said in a statement Thursday. “This is outrageous and needs to stop. No woman should ever lose a job for exercising her right to decide when, how, or whether to have a family.”

12:40 p.m. — Gender identity bill headed to governor

A bill allowing Californians to select a third gender identity on official state documents is headed to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. The bill, SB 179, recorded 24 votes in the Senate as of Thursday afternoon, more than enough to pass. It has already passed the Assembly, and a previous version passed the Senate in May.

People who don’t identify as male or female would be able to select a non-binary gender option, and the bill would ease processes to make that official transition. The bill, which would go into effect in September 2018, would affect birth certificates, driver’s licenses, and other state documents.

California would be the second state in the country to add a third gender to IDs, after Oregon. Oregon allows a third gender on driver’s licenses and state ID cards, but California would be the first state to incorporate the third gender more broadly into other state documents. (Correction: An earlier version of this story said California would be the first state to include a third gender on any ID’s.)

11:30 a.m. — Pet store bill passes

Animal lovers scored a victory when Assembly Bill 484 — requiring pet stores after January 2019 to get their dogs, cats and rabbits from shelters or rescue agencies — passed. The author, Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach, closed his statement with this: “I respectfully ask for your vote, and may dog be with you.”

A new rule to promote legislative transparency has made it harder to pass ambitious bills like a requirement that California use 100 percent clean energy, State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De León told us Thursday morning.

The rule, which voters approved when they passed Proposition 54 last year, requires that the final text of all legislation be posted publicly at least 72 hours before the Legislature takes a vote. Proponents said it would increase transparency in the Legislature. So far, it has limited the last-minute wheeling and dealing over late-night amendments that has characterized end-of-session nights in previous years.

“The 72-hour rule has really stymied negotiations,” De León said. “The creativity and the ability to be creative and find solutions to really hard, vexing, complex problems — all that’s thrown out the window.”

Specifically, he said, the rule had hurt his ability to pass SB 100, which would mandate California uses 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. His bill is currently stuck in the Assembly.

“It stifles the creativity to land these big giant issues like SB 100,” De León said of the rule. “The people of California deserve clean energy — and we want a vote on the bill.”

Katy Murphy is based in Sacramento and covers state government for The Mercury News and East Bay Times, a beat she took on in January 2017. Before that, she was the news organization's higher education reporter, writing about UC, CSU, community colleges and private colleges. Long ago, she covered Oakland schools and other K-12 education issues.

Casey Tolan covers national politics and the Trump administration for the Bay Area News Group. Previously, he was a reporter for the news website Fusion, where he covered criminal justice, immigration, and politics. His reporting has also been published in CNN, Slate, the Village Voice, the Texas Observer, the Daily Beast and other news outlets. Casey grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from Columbia University.

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